3. PAINE,
Thomas.
Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly. Being a plan for meliorating the condition of man, by
creating in every nation, a national fund, to pay to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of
fifteen pounds sterling, to enable him or her to begin the world! And also, ten pounds sterling per annum during life to every
person now living of the age of fifty years, and to all others when they shall arrive at that age, to enable them to live
in old age without wretchedness, and go decently out of the world. By Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, &c. &c.
Philadelphia: printed by
R. Folwell, for
Benjamin Franklin Bache. n.d. [
1797.]
AC901 .M5 vol. 1
8vo. 16 leaves.
In his Preface Paine states that this pamphlet was written in the winter of 1795, 6, and was now being published in answer
to the sermon by Bishop Watson (author of
An Apology for the Bible
, in answer to Paine’s
Age of Reason
), on The Wisdom and Goodness of God, in having made both rich and poor . . .
An edition dated 1797 was published in Baltimore.
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4. PAINE,
Thomas.
The Decline and fall of the English system of finance. By Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, American Crisis, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, &c . . .
Paris: printed by
Hartley, Adlard and Son,
London: reprinted for
D. I. Eaton,
1796. Entered at Stationers-Hall.
HJ8624 .P34
8vo. 24 leaves including the half-title (with the price,
One shilling). Signed at the end by Thomas Paine, and dated from Paris, 19th Germinal, 4th year of the Republic.
April 8, 1796.
At the end the author states:
I have now exposed the English system of finance to the eyes of all nations; for this work will be published in all languages.
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5. PAINE,
Thomas.
Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America. On affairs public and private. By Thomas Paine, author of the works entitled, Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, &c.
Philadelphia: printed by
Benj. Franklin Bache, No. 112 Market Street.
1796. [Entered according to law.]
AC901 .M5 vol. 70
8vo. 39 leaves, the last with the publisher’s advertisement. The letter is dated from Paris, July 30th, 1796. At the end is
an Appendix containing a copy of Paine’s
Memorial to Monroe, from the Prison of the Luxembourg, Sept. 10th, 1796.
Jefferson is mentioned once in this letter, when Paine states that he had written to Mr. Jefferson his opinion of Gouverneur
Morris on his appointment as Minister to France.
In this letter Paine complains bitterly that Washington did not obtain his liberation from his imprisonment in France under
Robespierre.
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